{"id":7317,"date":"2018-07-31T15:50:24","date_gmt":"2018-07-31T15:50:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=7317"},"modified":"2018-07-31T15:50:24","modified_gmt":"2018-07-31T15:50:24","slug":"ancestral-marriage-locations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=7317","title":{"rendered":"Ancestral Marriage Locations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I posted this quite a few years ago, but it has been updated with additional details of the marriage location of my parents through my great-great-grandparents. The only one I &#8220;know&#8221; was in a church was my parents&#8217; wedding. The others who were married by a minister probably had it done at the parsonage or in the church, but I&#8217;m not certain. The only reason I know where a set of my great-great-grandparents married is that it&#8217;s mentioned in their Civil War pension papers.\u00a0 Marriage records don&#8217;t often provide the precise location of the ceremony. Newspaper accounts of a marriage may provide additional details.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not a big fan of writing prompts, but reviewing these locations records to see if I have more precise information might be a good idea. One never knows what one might discover.<\/p>\n<p>My parents:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Carthage, Hancock County, Illinois&#8211;in church (local)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>My grandparents<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Keithsburg, Mercer County, Illinois&#8211;eloped (minister)<\/li>\n<li>Warsaw, Hancock County, Illinois&#8211;eloped (minister)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>My great-grandparents<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Breckenridge, Hancock County, Illinois&#8211;minister (local)<\/li>\n<li>Tioga, Hancock County, Illinois&#8211;minister (local)<\/li>\n<li>near Basco, Hancock County, Illinois&#8211;minister (local)<\/li>\n<li>Carthage, Hancock County, Illinois&#8211;minister (local) at parsonage<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>My great-great-grandparents<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>St. John, New Brunswick, Canada<\/li>\n<li>Walker Township, Hancock County, Illinois&#8211;minister (local) at bride&#8217;s home<\/li>\n<li>Tioga, Hancock County, Illinois&#8211;minister (local)<\/li>\n<li>Soap Creek Township, Davis County, Iowa&#8211;justice of peace (local)<\/li>\n<li>near Basco, Hancock County, Illinois&#8211;minister (local)<\/li>\n<li>Golden, Adams County, Illinois&#8211;minister (local)<\/li>\n<li>Prairie Township, Hancock County, Illinois&#8211;minister (local)<\/li>\n<li>Coatsburg, Adams County, Illinois&#8211;minister (local)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>All the marriage locations were local to where the couples were living&#8211;except for both sets of my grandparents. My paternal grandparents drove several counties away to get married&#8211;they were well beyond legal age (32 for grandpa and 25 for grandma). My maternal grandparents got married in a town about fifteen miles from where they were living, but still within the county limits as my grandmother was under age and had to get consent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I posted this quite a few years ago, but it has been updated with additional details of the marriage location of my parents through my great-great-grandparents. The only one I &#8220;know&#8221; was in a church was my parents&#8217; wedding. The others who were married by a minister probably had it done at the parsonage or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7317\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}